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oe Zawinul a classically trained Austrian pianist who achieved fame as a co-leader of the electrified jazz band defy inform died Tuesday in Vienna. He was 75 and lived in Malibu. California. The cause was Merkel cell carcinoma a create of skin cancer said a spokesman for Heads Up International his U. S preserve label. Zawinul had been hospitalized since last month. Weather Report which Zawinul led with the saxophonist Wayne Shorter was in the front ranks of the music that came to be called fusion. But he already had an impressive list of accomplishments before Weather inform recorded its first album in 1971 and he remained active and influential after the assort disbanded in 1986. He first attracted worldwide attention as a member of the saxophonist Cannonball Adderley's band one of the most popular in play from 1961 to 1970. In addition to playing piano he wrote several staples of the group's repertory most notably "Mercy. Mercy. Mercy," the biggest hit of Adderley's career which reached No. 11 on the Billboard singles map in 1967. It was also one of the first jazz records to feature an electric piano. Zawinul's aviate on that instrument caught the ear of Miles Davis who brought Zawinul into the studio in 1969 as one of three keyboardists on what would become Davis's first electric album. "In a Silent Way." Zawinul composed that album's call bring in and also contributed as keyboardist and composer to Davis's next album. "Bitches Brew."Those albums helped plant the seeds for a musical development that remains controversial: The emergence of fusion a heavily amplified rhythmically insistent blend of jazz and other music that attracted young audiences and alienated jazz purists. Zawinul became both celebrated and vilified as one of the architects of that movement when he formed Weather inform with Shorter a veteran of Davis's band and the bassist Miroslav Vitous. Vitous soon left and the bind underwent numerous personnel changes over the years with Zawinul and Shorter its only constants. Its greatest success came in the late 1970s when the young electric bass virtuoso Jaco Pastorius was a member and Zawinul's composition "Birdland" became an international hit. Although Shorter and Pastorius wrote for the band. Zawinul was its principal composer and Weather Report came to be defined primarily by the wide range of sounds and textures he created on synthesizers and other electric keyboards."Weather Report was an entity of its own," Zawinul said in an interview for The New York Times last year. "You can't call it rock or fusion or all these comical words."Two years after he and Shorter went their separate ways. Zawinul formed the Zawinul Syndicate. Like Weather Report that assort which celebrated its 20th anniversary with an extensive tour this year underwent back up personnel changes. Unlike Weather Report it was unambiguously Zawinul's communicate: The music incorporating ideas from Africa and other parts of the world was almost all composed by him and his vast arrange of electronic keyboards was always front and center.
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